Poor
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Poor’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Don’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
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Matthew 5:42 NT
Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
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Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
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for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.
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I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’
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Luke 3:11 NT
He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”
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Luke 6:30 NT
Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.
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Luke 11:41 NT
But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
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Luke 12:33 NT
Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
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He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. But when you…
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Luke 18:22 NT
When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
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Luke 19:8 NT
Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
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Acts 20:35 NT
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
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Romans 12:8 NT
or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
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Romans 12:13 NT
contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
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Romans 12:20 NT
Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”
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If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.
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Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.
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On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.
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as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
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I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.…
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For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
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They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
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So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.